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I got 30 Welsummer chicks from Murray McMurray with the intent of improving them over the coming years following the Livestock Conservancy's guidelines that they fleshed out while working with their Buckeyes. I'll use their assessment criteria on my cockerels at eight weeks to decide which ones...

You're not going to get a 5 pound carcass from a Welsummer hen in a reasonable timeframe for meat production. If you're talking about butchering two year old hens as stewing birds then you might get close if you have fairly large stock to begin with. You're also going to find that nearly every...

Does anyone have a picture of a splash cuckoo? I'm curious what it would look like.

The title says it all. I want to cross the biggest barred rock rooster I can find to black ameraucana hens. The goal is to make a dual purpose bird, sexable at hatching, with beard and pea comb to deal with New York winters on the top of a mountain. What breeders make the biggest barred rocks...

Are there any blue wheaten breeders in NY? I'd really like to get my hands on a cockerel or mature rooster, but some local chicks or eggs would do in a pinch.

We use a turkey fryer pot to do out chicken scalding, and it is just big enough for two birds and definitely about a third of the size of our turkey pot. We lucked into a pair of 30 gallon stainless pots for $30 that we couldn't pass up. It's really about the right size for a 45lb tom. I don't...

Deep red wheaten cubalaya that is.

So who would I want to get a hold of for some deep red cubalaya?

Do cubalaya carry the mahogany gene? They look to be deeper red than standard wheaten (especially the hens) but they don't hold a canle to mahogany faverolles. Is it just not as dark a red in general exhibited in cubalaya, or are they just straight wheaten?

The title says it all, I am on the hunt for the best blue wheaten ameraucana and blue wheaten marans breeders. I am not looking for show quality necessarily, but I am looking for the biggest and blockiest examples of the breeds. Egg laying rate is also of big importance to me.

Is there a breed with partridge patterning and a beard? I've seen partridge EEs but want to know about something that breeds true.

There are several silkie threads already, one of them is several thousand pages deep... Just scroll through and you'll see it.

The parent stock of modern meat birds are most likely very distant from any real breeds you could find commercially. Look into the white chantecler for a pure breed derived from cornish and white rocks, along with white wyandotte, leghorn, and RIR. I defnitely would never offer any discouraging...

Ok, so autosexing does work with wheaten when you get to the fourth generation when you cross a double barred cock to a single barred hen? Using the genetics calculator I will be crossing: Salmon Faverolles cock to Barred Rock hen, giving me sex linked black offspring Black sex link cock to...

Oh I get that, I meant with those two varieties of chickens. I'll actually get black sex linked offspring to be particular. At what age do you see differentiation in feathering of cockerels and pullets in a barred/double barred breed with wheaten down? If it's just a matter of waiting for the...

I figured I'd end up going for green eggs with an ameraucana. I wanted browns, but I can live with greens. I'll go with barred rocks instead of crele OEGs, since I'm going for lay rate and weight for capons. Getting crele from that pairing seems pretty straightforward.

So what route would you take towards getting everything I want in a bird? Involving an additional bird isn't out of the question, but I'd like to have the phenotype I'm after sooner rather than later so I can start selecting within it.

Okay, with the purchase of some land to homestead on, I want to start working on developing an heirloom breed for the family. I want a bearded, pea or rose combed, autosexing, brown egg laying bird. My plan was to cross up a salmon faverolles cock on a dominique hen. The resulting cock would be...

We found that the ducks' night vision presented problems with housing with our chickens. If you house them separate I doubt you'll run into problems.

I voted for Black Giants, but optimally you are going to want to caponize your cockerels so you can grow them to full weight and still have a tender bird.